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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-28
RIVER AND HARBoR NEWS.
Among the Shipping and
Along the Wharves.

Gleanings Among the Shipping and
Along the Wharves
Capt. L. B. Lasserre and Mr.. Robert
Downs, two Fernandina pilots, were in town
yesterday.
Twenty-Five foreign steamships are in
port. These ocean tranps" can each of
them carry almost the product of one cotton
growing county.
The steamship Lancaster, Capt Sleeves,
arrived. yesterday from Philadelphia. The
Lancaster and Capt. Sleeves are regular
traders at this port every fall.
Messrs Richardson & barnard cleared
yesterday the British steamship Albania for
Bremen, with 1850 bales upland cotton,
weighing 2,4l6959 pounds, valued at 1927, :
301.
The British steamship Wimbledon was
cleared yesterday, by Messrs. A. Minis &
Sons, for Genoa, with 3, 551 bales of upland
cotton, weighing LIZ, 079 pounds, valued at
$155,910.
The Fernandina pilot boat Christine L.
arrived below yesterday on cruise, She
was after the Norwegian bark Aristos,
which was spoken off Tybee Monday even
ing by the pilot boat F. NJ. Jones, and was
ordered to Fernandina
The steamer Katie brought down sol bales
of cotton last night 1t is pleasant sight
to see bales of cotton piled upon the old
wharves. 1t looks like ''old timesn when,
though Savannah did not get nearly mil
lion of bales as it now does, it made much
better showing of the staple along the city
wharveS
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-28
AT THE THEATRE.
"Beby" Bindley as "a Heroine in
Rags" To-Night's Attraction.

"Beby" Bindley as "a Heroine in
Rags" To-Night's Attraction.
"a Heroine in Rags" with "Baby"
Bindley as the heroine, will be the at
traction at the Theatre tonight. The
Charleston papers said of the performance
there on Monday night that there were
three excellent features in connection with
it-a big house, a good play, and Baby
Bindley. Baby" by the way, is about
seventeen in the shade, and looks, and
winks, and dances, and smiles, and
cries very much all together, in
the good old-fashioned soubrette
style. She played the part Of Gabrielle" in
the Heroine in Rags and did prettily all
the things that flower girls do, including
their appearance in very short dress with
"A very long horizontal stripe around its
southern border. She captured the house
at the first assault and smiled and danced
her way to an ovation before the close of
the first act. Miss Bindley can also be pa
thetic, and was particularly so during the
snow sceIle at the opening of the fourth act
The SAFE Of seats indicates a successful en-
gagement in Savannah.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-28
THE BIG YACHT RACE.
Savannah Takes a Lively Interest in
the Great Contest.

There was a good deal of interest mani
tested here in the yacht contest, and good
deal of rejoicing when the wires told that
the Volunteer had won the first race of the
series. There was little doubt that she
would still every one was glad to learn that
she had, and that her chances for winning
the cup are thereby greatly increased.
There was good deal of surprise, however,
that the Volunteer should have beaten the
Thistle so badly. A lead of eighteen minutes
in twenty -four-mile race was considered a
very bad beat, and it was compared with
yacht races held in these waters, where
in twenty-mile races there will
not be difference of, perhaps, more than
half minute between the first and second
boats. These, it is said, are types of the
races sailed between American built crafts,
but when y foreign built boat comes over
here she must be content TO count the time
by which she was beaten by minutes instead
of seconds, The race firmly convinced Sa-
vannah yachtsmen of the superiority of the
centreboard over the keel, if there was any
doubt in their minds before. No one be
lieves now that England or Scotland can
ever stand a ghost of chance to carry
back the Queens cup until they learn how
TO build fiat bottomed yachts and TO handle
O centreboard, but as John Bull is opposed
To innovations he will probably stick to the
keel and America will stick to the cup.
The betting here was light, because there
were few betters who were willing to risk
their money on the Thistle. Some English
captains who happened to be in port took
an occasional flyer of few ''puns," and
when they sail away they will leave their
money behind them. But outside of the
betting done by the captains, there was very
little money staked, and altogether the
money that changed hands was not more
than $780, but some Savannahians were
betting in New York, and what the win
nings or losses there were are not known.
Land o. cakes" will have quite large bill
for hats to settle for. He bet on the "Thus-
col -
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-28
THE CATCHING OF OYSTERS.
A Fisherman Points Out the Bad
Points in the Bill Lately Introduced.

A Fisherman Points Out the Bad
Points in the Bill Lately Introduced.
SAVANNAH, GA, Sept. 26.-Editor Morn
ing NetUs: In your valued columns of
Sept. %, under heading of IAN Important
Measure" is bill introduced in the Senate
of Georgia, governing the rights of island
and canal land owners. True, it is an inn
portant measure to at least 600 or more,
that are engaged for living, that would
be destroyed il this measure in question be-
comes a law, and it is very doubtful if
every household in Georgia will not feel the
loss of being deprived of fish and oys-
terS.
The passage of this act would create a
monopoly in favor of few Ogeechee river
planters, and few PARTIES below Thunder
bolt, while the many would suffer. Let us
carefully examine some portions of the
measure and see If the member introducing
the bill had fully weighed the good and evil
consequences that would emanate from the
passage of such measure.
By section second a planter can lay claim
to all marsh land around the coast, and put
up sign boards with letter ''On on them This
gives him exclusive right to a distance of
l25 feet outside low water mark This lat
ter is clearly a violation of the navigation
laws of the United States; henceif parties
protest, the beneticiares of this act will be-
come as bold as the railroad monopolists,
and the holder of the helm of this State
will have to come to the rescue of the poor
as President Cleveland did in the case of
Miller. Section four clearly defines that
ANY person catching oysters by any device
whatever in any of the navigable waters of
this State, between May l and Sept 1, shall
be deemed guilty of violation of this act,
and punished as hereinafter provided
This will prohibit any one of the
numerous individuals going on pleasure
trip from picking Gf they wanted toy few
oysters from any of the several beds of
oysters in the waters of this State, and
placed there by an all-wise Providence, and
not by those who are to be benefited by the
passage of the measure in question. Sec
ton fifth says; when any one detects an
other in violation of this act, they are
authorized to arrest, without any evidence
of authority to do so. All transgreSsors
would not quietly submit to such proceed
ings
1t is to be hoped that our. honored Repre-
sentatives from Chatham county, will put
forth their best endeavors TO defeat so one
sided measure, which favors few TO the
detriment of 600 poor people who earn an
honest living by catching fish and oysters
from the waters of this State.
FISHERMAN.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-28
A. R. Altmayer 81 Co.

Beg to announce to their patrons and the
public generally that they have inaugurated
a series of bargain sales, and when they say
bargains the public will do well to be on the
alert and seize the opportunity to save at
least 80 per cent. by purchasing any of the
different goods offered at those prices As
an illustration of what we intend to do in
the future, we respectfully ask a careful
examination of the following unapproacha-
BILE bargains. which will be on sale to-mor-
row Thursday morning:
One lot ladies' four-button Swede I'M
dressed Kid Gloves, heavy silk embroidered
back, in tans, for this special sale, BIC. /;
positively worth 81.
O G LOT ladies' tour-button Kid Gloves,
sill. embroidered back, black and tans, for
this sale only, He. usual price 81 IS.
One lot ladies' white and fancy embroid-
cred Elandkerchiefs, hemstitched and seal
loped edge, fine quality, all linen; this sea
sons novelties; during this sale only 19c :;
guaranteed not to be had elsewhere less than
40c. and SOC.
One lot ladies' full, regular made Hose,
unbleached; black and solid colors, war
ranted fast, extra long and desirable.
Thursday only; &c. regular price 25c. to
31c
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-28
COWBOY Dialect.

From Sc,ibner's Magazine for October.
1t becomes, indeed, familiar and useful
addition to your conversational stock of the
vernacular. Nay, you even find the field of
its usefulness charging, for the terms of the
roundup" and the branding" and sheep
shearing are more or less piquant, and lend
themselves easily to applications remote
from their primitive usage. Transposed to
the ordinary business or social concerns of
modern life, they come to have sort of zest
in them; they reveal new sources of humor;
they place old saws and old customs in a
sharp light, a fresh illumination; but al
ways by that undercurrent of suggestion, by
contrast or association with the original pur-
suits, which the words described. So l
heard, last year, politician speak of a
bolter of the Republican ticket as
Quicker" A ''bucking horse" is one that
''jumps sidewise or forward, up and down,
with his legs stiffened into an unrelaxed
perpendicular, and the image certainly has
a kind of affinity with the moral action of a
refractory voter
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-28
UNNECESSARY DETENTION.
An Open Letter From the Captain OF
the British Brigantine Edna.
BRITISH BRIGANTINE EDNA,

Sept. %, 1887.
To the Sanitary Board, Savannah, Ga.
GENTLEMEN-I arrived at the quarantine
station on Sept. from Demerara, and as
there was no sickness of any kind there /
was furnished with the usual clean bill of
health granted by the United States Consul
at that port.
was about twenty days on my passage,
and arrived here with all hands in good
health, not having had the least sign of any
sickness on board the whole voyage. On
being boarded by the Health Officer l was
informed that / should have TO discharge
my ballast, fumigate my vessel and lay
there six days before going up to Savannah.
Now at the station there are only two places
where vessels may discharge. There were
two large vessels there Before me, conse-
quently had to wait seven days for berth;
then, after losing one day fumigating, was
granted permission to discharge, provided
put the ballast in some particular place
pointed out by the Health officer. My
vessel being small one, | had only six men
to work, and being ordered to wheel the
ballast twice as far as | should consider
there was any need to do in the suffocating
weather which prevailed during my stay
there, it was almost more than my men
could stand, and had the greatest difficulty
to get it ont, one man having to shovel the
whole one hundred tons. After finishing,
the Health Officer complained that had not
leveled it enough, and had to put my men
on shore and smooth it over, and | suppose
if he had wanted a flower garden made |
should have had to have done it. We then
had to go through our second Immigration,
being another day lost and then commenced
our six days. After laying six whole days
was informed ON the seventh that owing
to the neglect of the
Health Officer at Savannah in not
sending down a permit for my release |
must lose another day, so that from the
time of my arrival at quarantine until
allowed to go up to ''the portn it was eight
cen days, and my cargo all this time wait
ing for me to load. Now all this absurd de-
tention on the part of the health officials
must end in great loss to my owner and
self, and | consider it gross neglect that /
should have been kept all this time And l
am of an opinion that the ships interests
does not receive the least consideration at
the hands of the sanitary officials, no one
seeming to notice or care how long a ship is
detained Something should be done, and
If a vessel is required to lay six days after
discharging ballast and fumigating she
should not be kept seven days before getting
to the wharf to get her ballast out
The places allotted out for ships to lay
discharging are not safe. | had only feet
at low water, and the piles being broken
away the iron bolts sticking out or
inches have seriously damaged my copper.
shipmaster and | will honestly say never
entered port with such unreasonable quar-
antine regulations as Savannah, and must,
if continued, tend to drive all shipping
away from the port. | remain, gentlemen,
yours respectfully, r. ROBERTS.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-28
At the Hotels.

Screven House-Frederick Lewis, NJ
Alexander, d. Wcingarten, Jack Price,
Henry Gutenberg, w. NJ. Dodd, New York
E. c. Gutherman, r. j. Wiles, Atlanta
Frank Gambet, Boston; j.. w. Everfeld.
Baltimore; F. A. Kaiser, Milwaukee; s. r.
Hansel, }. Kohlberg, Philadelphia NJ
Frank, Columbus, Mss. John S. Farley,
Charleston.
Marshall House-M. Stevend, Boston
II. X. Enghram. Monticello, Fla. A;
Joseph Daily. X l.. Harrison, Apalachcola.
Fla. J. +. Burke, New York City; T.
Springfelt, Buffalo; l.. G. PEOPLES, Carries
ton; p. r. Young, Atlanta; w. $ Harrison,
Hnesville w. G. Mallory, Wellborn, Fla. /:
Charles f. Hitch, H. 2. Mattox, Homer
vile; w. +. Cummings, Cummings, S. q. I;
j. w. Borne. Port Royal.
Harnett House John Smith, Frank
Founder, Liverpool; John Rushmer, George
d. Miller, Birmingham, Eng; William
Mckenzie, Hartlcpool, Eng. ; M. II. Allen,
Georgia; r. Il. Spencer, Albany; ID. G.
Williams, Dougherty county; Mrs. i. G..
Jones, Pierce county John Thebaut, Aus
tin Donleary, Is. -. Fairbanks, New York I;
II. +. Rhodes, Detroit; DR.. II. w. Feeller,
Blackshear
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-28
OVER IN CHARLESTON.
What is Going on in South Cardinals
Metropolis.

What is Going on in South Carolina's
Metropolis.
Charleston's police force numbers eighty
men.
Supt. Devereux has been ordered by the
United States Supervising Architect at
Washington to test the nature of the soil in
the GuardhOuse lot. at the corner of Meet
ing and Broad streets, with view to pre-
pairing the plans and specifications for the
foundation of the new post Office.
The Young Mems Democratic Club of
Charleston has been reorganized The OBJ
ject is to encourage and foster an interest
among the young men in political affairs,
city, State and national. The young men,
it is also understood, will ask in the coming
campaign, a fair share of the municipal Off
ces.
1t is not improbable that Mr.. Harnisch,
the designer and sculptor of the Calhoun
monument, will visit Charleston for the
purpose of inspecting the result of his work.
1t is understood that he contemplate visit
ing the United States at an early day, and
an invitation has been extended to him to
come to Charleston The invitation, how
ever has not yet been accepted
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-28
Something of a Snake.

A rattlesnake six feet four inches long
and six inches in diameter in the largest
part of its body, was killed few days ago
In the rear of Capt Robbins house at Tybee,
by Alex Clark, Jr. IL had eight rattles and
a button, and was an ugly looking reptile
Ills is the second rattlesnake killed on the
island, the other having been dispatched
near the Aiartello tower about ten years
ago. The snake had evidently come down
the river during the recent freshet. as il is a
well-known fact that such snakes do not
breed on the island
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-28
Local Personal.

Bishop Weed, OF Florida, was In the city
yesterday.
MAJ. w. r. Shellman left last night for
New York over tho Charleston and Sayan-
nah.
j. q, Hayward, Esq. was on the steam
ship hscooehee which arrived yesterday
from New York.
Mr.. John IuIfon was passenger on the
steamship Cbaitahoocbea, which sailed for
hes York yesterday.
Among the passengers On the steamship
Nac0ochaf, which arrived yesterday from
Rev York, Uefe NJ. aud Mr. III J. Rieser.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-28
His Fine COMMITTED.

Gov. Gordon has committed the fine
imposed on Charles Finch, convicted two
years ago in Ehingham county of assault
and battery, and sentenced to two years in
the Chatham county changing, and also
TO pay fine of 800 and costs. Finch has
served his two years imprisonment, and
the communication granted him by the Gov.
ernor is the release from the payment of
the fined. The petition was numerously
signed, and among those who affixed their
signatures were the father of the man as
saulted, the prosecutor in the case, the Sole
itor, the officers Of the court and county
officials and other citizens.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-28
A Night at Maginn:s's.

From, the San Francisco Examiner.
Deputy Coroner johnson was sworn and
deposed:
"Last night, about II o'clock, your honor,
| was standing in the door of the Morgue
when a man came through Dunbar alley.
He was bareheaded, his nose was bleeding,
and he was all covered with sawdust.
"'HelloP I said, you're in pretty bad
luck. What's the matter with your
"'Oh, nothin', he said, I've just been
over to Maginnis's'
about three minutes later another man
came into the alley limping badly. One of
his eyes was swollen dreadfully and his
cheek was bloody.
"'Well,' Il asked, what policeman dubbed
your
"'No policeman, young Teller he an
swered, I've just been over to Maginnis's'
"a third man appeared pretty soon, look
ing like a total wreck. Somebody had
stepped on the fingers of his left hand. They
We're all broken and dangling like SO many
sausages
"'Ah.' said I, what's happened to your
"'Not much in particular. I've just been
over to Maginnis's.'
so went inside. your honor, and present
ly perceived face peering through the
window of the Morgue from the outside. 1t
was the worst bunged-up face | ever saw.
The forehead was skinned and CORY, the eyes
were mere lines on mounds of discolored
flesh, and the lips were like two slices of
cantaloupe All his front teeth were
knocked out and blood was dripping down
on his shirt front.
"'Well, said going to the door, what
do you want, my friendp
''pm looking for the Receiving Hospital.
"'Been over to Maginnis's? inquired.
"'Maginnis's be dashed said he; I'm
Maginnis himself
YES" affirmed Mr.. Johnston. 81 recog-
nize the prisoners in the dock as the four
men. presume the gentlemen met later
and resumed the discussion"
Decision reserved.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-28
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ODD FELLOWS INSURANCE.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge and the
National Benefit Association.

The Sovereign Grand Lodge and the
National Benefit Association.
Grand Sire White, in his report to the
Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows,
which met at Denver, Col, last week, con-
corning Odd Fellows benefit associations
handles without gloves the Odd Fellows
National Benefit Association of Cincinnati,
whose operations were exposed by the
MORNING NEWS several months ago. indie
pendent Odd Fellows organize
and are allowed to run and
do business by the State Grand
Lodges, Mr.. White says, without let,
or hindrance, or question in any man
ner. He has become satisfied, however,
that very little attention is paid by State
and colonial lodges to their organization
When they are not authorized by the Grand
Lodge within whose borders they are loca-
ted, he goes ON TO say, they are in direct
violation of the laws of the Grand Lodge
He then refers to the Cincinnati
Association and the action brought
against it by the Savannah membership. If
the grounds on which the suit were based
are true nothing can be devised, he says,
which will tend more strongly to bring dis
credit upon the order than this kind of
swil>dling 1t is not only, he adds, an out
rage upon the order, but an especial dis
grace to the members who knowingly
engage in it. The complete expose which
has been given the Cincinnati association
and the action which the Georgia Grand
Lodge has taken WILL without doubt, result
in a general wind-up of its affairs.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-28
WANT TO BE TEACHERS.
Thirty-One Applicants for Assistant
Teachers Positions.

Thirty-One Applicants for Assistant
Teachers Positions.
The examinations for positions as assist
ant teachers to fill vacancies in the public
schools were held in Chatham Academy yes
terday under the direction of the Examin-
ing Committee of the Board of Education.
which is composed of the President, Col.
Mercer, j. r. Saussy, ESQ. DIR. Read, Capt.
Blum, and Supt. Baker. The examinations
were conducted by Supt. Baker and Messrs.
Train, Thigpen and O'Brien. The vacancies
to be filled are in the Bar
nard street and Massie schools and
the West and East Broad street colored
schools. There were ten applicants for the
positions in the white schools, and twenty
one for the colored schools. The former
were; Miss Lillian E. Miller, Miss Alice NJ.
White, Miss Nj. p. Porter, Miss V. L. Sweat,
Mrs H. M. Lightsey, Miss M. w. McCul-
loch, Miss S. |. Straight, Miss Ivie Patter-
son, Mr.. f Fl. Ferguson. The colored APP
plicants: Georgia Knox, Maria CASTOR,
Rosa l.. Brown, Josephine Posey, Juliet
Monroe, S. c. Ford, Mary Speed, Mary L..
Williams, Jennie Grey, Ureka Jackson,
Florence A. Lewis, Bessie Gwyn, Matte
Campbell, Willie Peasants, e. f. Bennett,
l.. Burke, Lizzie Daniels, Minnie Hardie,
Mamie Reynolds, Lucy Campfeld, Lille
Maxwell
The examinations covered geography,
English grammar and arithmetic. They
were very searching and severe and the APP
plicants who pass will prove themselves
qualified for the positions by passing. On
account of the number of papers to be over
looked the committee will not be able to re-
port before tomorrow night. The schools
will be opened on Oct 3, and on Thursday
and Friday of this week Superintendent
Baker will be in his Office for the purpose of
issuing cards of admission. This year all
children living north Of Jones street will be-
required to so to Chatham Academy, and
the school districts will thus be more rigidly
observed
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-28
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